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Baltimore Takes Police Brutality Into Their Own Hands
Over forty years ago marches at our nation’s capital and around the country were ear-marked with peaceful assemblies as minorities and ethnicities across the spectrum gathered to defend their Amendment rights. They expressed their dis-satisfaction with legislation, police brutality and the overall inequality of rights for all people.
These last few days in the city of Baltimore there was a strikingly different assembly. Residents of that city took police brutality into their own hands with police becoming the target of rocks and other objects. Within this new generation, where a community feels peace has failed them, they are resorting to an altogether different type of protest.
The streets of Baltimore looked like a mad house after the funeral of Freddie Gray. This is what happens when people feel hopeless, angry and desperate. The part of the city which was hit the hardest is an area which has been known as an “open air drug market.” Baltimore’s law enforcement had a horrible reputation before the tragic murder of Gray and continued provocations from police has caused a strained relationship in the area.
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